[UDK] Japanese Temple at night

penE

Quite genereric title, but here's what I've been working on in the past week or so:
It's still quite WIP, I definiately have to work on the backdrop some more, with some nice temple buildings and lush vegetation and there will be more individual props in the foreground.


and with a big amount of blur :


Some texture flats (Texture sizes are still a bit obsessive, but it's harder to scale them up than down in the end ):

Beams:
http://i.imgur.com/y0uHw.jpg
Woodfloor:
http://i.imgur.com/HzXc1.jpg
Pillar:
http://i.imgur.com/rBxtL.jpg

The scene so far is based on this Red Steel concept art:


My plan is to expand the scene with a little bamboo forest + some more corridors and interior stuff.

Thats all I have so far. I'm going to make some highpoly renders soon and post them in here.

r4ptur3

lookin mighty fine, sir! are you going to open that roof up to let the rain in or keep it closed? Those bright light hits on the floor are going to be a challenge to get right, but it'll make the shot!

Quickel

Really diggin' your wood textures. This a mix of sculpting and photo source?

MisterSande

looks sweet man, I demand a workflow/tutorial! xD

penE

Thanks alot everyone

@r4ptur3: I'm not quite sure how closely I'm going to follow the concept art, but I think I'm gonna damage the roof some more to let some more nice particle effects in .

All the wood stuff in the scene is a mix between sculpted, photo sourced and handpainted details.

I started off with a simple mudbox sculpt for each piece. Just scraped of the edges and drew some lines with the knive tool.


For the actual texture I used a photo reference as a base and then painted on top of it. The ref has alot of contrast, and I reduced some of its noise.

I painted with various different layer styles and finally came up with this:


So yeah, it comes down to actually just a lot of painting .

penE

Worked on that bench for the candles a bit. The candles aren't really done yet and still need flames and some sort of thin smoke.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

I'm going to rape your scene with my appendage. I love that spec on the floor. So soft.

JasonLavoie

Gross...

The scene is looking nice penE, really like how your wood is showing within the scene, are the blue's coming from the spec or from your lighting?

biofrost

Looking really nice, can't wait to see this finished.

penE

Thanks guys.
For the wood floor the blueish reflections come from the lighting, I use the new dx11 image reflections for that, for the rest I use blue specs :poly121:.

JoshWilkinson

Man this is looking really good. But those lightmap seams on the wood supports are killing it for me. I'd either adjust the resolution or not make them look more like a beam and less likes a tileable, continuous texture. Not sure what your texture sheet looks like but if you have all four sides unique, you can get four different textures off that one mesh by rotating each instance.

penE

Yeah you're totally right on that one. The texture is still a leftover from a test corridor I did, and I just reused it there.

penE

Added some props here and there and worked on the rain some more

r4ptur3

hey dude!

nice work!!!! I noticed you are leaning heavily towards the lower end of all your values, so I popped into photoshop to do a quick levels. All I did was crunch everything and bring it back towards black. I'm not sure if this is what you are going for, but I think it makes everything pop

penE

Damn you're right, I just saw the pic on my ipad and there it's much darker. Think I've got to recalibrate my monitor (and of course adjust the levels in the scene ).

penE

Update with another corridor of the temple with some stairs that lead to that pavillon thingy:

Might be too dark on other monitors as well, have to check that out.
Pavillon looks like this atm:

SuperSubz

Dude this stuff is so awesome, the way you've got the lighting and textures down. Kudos!